Celebrating the Polski #Fiat: 25 years since #coldwar #Poland’s little legend took its final bow tvpworld.com/89062310/mar...

#BOOKGIVEAWAY Follow @coldwarpod.bsky.social then Reshare this post to enter a chance to win a copy of this book. T&C's & other ways to enter here coldwarconversations.com/giveaway/ #nuclearbritain #coldwarculture #coldwarhistory

Two Soviet pensioners in a park… Actually it’s Victoria and Leonid Brežnev on holiday in Sochi in 1980. The photo was taken three years after their golden wedding. A marriage that lasted 55 years, from 1927 until Leonid's death in 1982.

Gems in the archive pod.fo/e/2b3634

NEW EPISODE - #coldwar #Britain : Fifty years in the shadow of #thebomb #UK #culture #socialhistory #politicalhistory #militaryhistory Listen here 🎧 pod.fo/e/32de03

Many of you will be familiar with The Wargame made by Peter Watkins depiecting the effects of a nuclear attack on the UK in the 1960s. Before that he also made a film about the 1956 Hungarian Uprising. www.dailymotion.com/video/x9hn50w

NEW EPISODE - #coldwar #Britain : Fifty years in the shadow of #thebomb Listen here 🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode422/ #UK #culture #socialhistory #nuclearweapons

Cover reveal for my forthcoming book, WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN which tells the history of Cold War Britain (c.1956-89) through the eyes of children & young people! Out with @yalebooks.bsky.social 28 April 2026 #booksky #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

What can Cold War childhood memories teach us about living in the Anthropocene and its uncertain futures? 🌍✨ (An)Archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War by Mnemo ZIN is out now! Join the online launch Oct 1st at 8am MST! RSVP & Register 👇 tinyurl.com/2ju6syz3 @microbial-child.bsky.social

#BOOKGIVEAWAY Follow @coldwarpod.bsky.social then re share this post to enter a chance to win a copy of this book. UK Listeners only - T&C's here coldwarconversations.com/giveaway/ #nuclearbritain #coldwarculture #coldwarhistory

From the archive - #USA ’s #ColdWar #Scottish Bastion @apo11o.bsky.social pod.fo/e/23aa56

Happy #BRIXMIS Day! Today is the 79th anniversary of the signing of the Robertson-Malinin Agreement, which created BRIXMIS, the British Commanders'-in-Chief Mission to the Soviet Forces in Germany, and their #Soviet counterparts. pod.fo/e/2616c5

LATEST EPISODE - #DBCooper: The Unsolved #ColdWar Aircraft #Hijacking Listen here 🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode421/ #truecrime #Flight305 #hijack

Seventy years ago, the British Empire claimed its last piece of territory – a bleak and uninhabited island, 260 miles west of Scotland's Outer Hebrides. www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...

From the archive - Sex, #spies and #scandal : the John Vassall affair with @alexgrant24.bsky.social pod.fo/e/2277f4

NEW EPISODE - #DBCooper: The Unsolved #ColdWar Aircraft #Hijacking Listen here 🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode421/ #truecrime #Flight305 #hijack

From the archive - #ColdWar #Nuclear Bombing Missions and a #UFO Encounter pod.fo/e/24fa11

🇭🇺36 years ago, 1989. Hungary opened its borders to the refugees of East Germany on 11 September. In three days, 12,000 people set off towards freedom through Austria, and by the end of autumn, about 70,000 East Germans left the GDR.

In 1969, 23-year-old French photographer Arnaud de Rosnay came to Moscow for Vogue Magazine. Eager to soften its image after the Prague Spring, he was allowed to bring in Western fashion, select his own Soviet model. De Rosnay chose Galina Milovskaya, soon nicknamed the “Russian Twiggy.”

From the archive - The Night a Nuclear Missile Accidentally Exploded: A Firsthand Account of Survival pod.fo/e/2fa195

It was an absolute pleasure to lead one of #ManchesterMuseum 's architecture tours this week. If you'd like to sign up for a tour join our newsletter here. www.museum.manchester.ac.uk

New brewery and bar uses #coldwar Nike missile command center built to defend #Pittsburgh 's industrial core during the #ColdWar. www.axios.com/local/pittsb...

Oleg Gordievsky, the #Soviet #KGB officer who was #MI6’s greatest #ColdWar #spy pod.fo/e/31ad0d

Spotify’s transcript is struggling with this week’s guest’s strong Scottish accent. Listen here. pod.fo/e/325baf

NEW EPISODE - A Royal Scots Dragoon Guard in #ColdWar #Berlin Listen here 🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode420/ #berlinwall #royalscots @germanatportsmouth.bsky.social @jonnywhitlam.bsky.social @whwnorthernic.bsky.social

Don’t miss Cold War Conversations live in London on 1st Nov 2025 More info here coldwarconversations.com/live/

#OTD 1945, Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko defected to Canada and revealed a large Soviet spy ring in Canada, and another in the United States. Listen to his story here pod.fo/e/e189c

Cold War-Era Luxury Bunker With Original 1970s Interiors Lists in Las Vegas for $8.5 Million www.mansionglobal.com/articles/col...

Spy vs. Spy: Scenes from the #ColdWar in #Colombia, 1963-72 | National Security Archive nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Over 50 and fancy an architecture tour of Manchester Museum with me on Monday Sep 8th? Details below. £11.55 Inc booking fee and tea. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/architea-c...

Only time for one game this past weekend and taught 1960:The Making of the President to a friend of mine. Was hoping to get this one plus 13 Days: The Cuban Missile Crisis and Watergate in. Took us longer to play 1960 than I had planned. Had fun though. @jasondcmatthews.bsky.social #boardgames

Ah, the engineering flowchart…

#OTD in 1985, the wreck of RMS Titanic was located. It was actually a cover story for a secret mission funded by the U.S. Navy to survey the wrecks of two US submarines. After the primary mission was completed, the team had some remaining time that they used to locate the ocean liner lost in 1912.

Richard was 6 years old when he was uprooted from a school in the United States to a Soviet school 700 miles East of Moscow. pod.fo/e/16f367

#coldwar avionics engineer Ron Boxall recounts his experiences working on iconic aircraft like the #Nimrod and #Vulcan. pod.fo/e/32168b

Tom & Jerry was banned in #Romania for having too much food on the table! Listen here pod.fo/e/32131e

NEW EPISODE - The 2nd Most Famous Voice In #ColdWar #Romania (after the Communist leader Nicolae #Ceaușescu. ) Listen here 🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode419/ #irinanistor #VHS #Chucknorrisvscommunism

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A West Berlin policeman, left, & an East German border guard stare at each other across the border line at Friedrichstrasse, West Berlin, Checkpoint Charlie, Sunday, Aug. 13, 1989, on the 28th annivesary of the Berlin Wall www.alamy.com/a-west-germa...

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NEW EPISODE - The 2nd Most Famous Voice In #coldwar #romania (after the Communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu. ) Listen here 🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode419/ #irinanistor #vhs #chucknorrisvscomunism #ColdWarHistory

From the archive V-Bombers: #Britain's #Nuclear Frontline in the #coldwar pod.fo/e/225523

From the archive - It’s a chilling insight into Stasi prison conditions and the brutality that the political prisoners endured from the other inmates and the guards. pod.fo/e/d2879

From the archive - The #Soviet #Sixties pod.fo/e/25a032

From the archive - From #EastBerlin to #Ireland: A #ColdWar Journey pod.fo/e/26441f

1st Nov 2025 @coldwarpod.bsky.social will be appearing at the Imperial War Museum Podcast Festival. I'll be chatting with Colin, a veteran of the British Army‘s Cold War covert Special OP Troop & host of the Unconventional Soldier Podcast. Book via the link below www.iwm.org.uk/events/podca...

The #KGB #spy that warned the UK that the Soviet leadership believed US and #Nato had plans for a surprise #nuclear first strike against the Soviet Union. Listen here coldwarconversations.com/episode418/

NEW EPISODE - Codename Sunbeam - #MI6's greatest #coldwar #spy Listen here 🎧 coldwarconversations.com/episode418/ #oleggordievsky #KGB #spies #Espionage #gordievsky #coldwarspies

#MI5 ‘s key to the Westminster branch of the Communist Party of Great Britain

The #secret #coldwar British Army "stay behinds" The Special OP Troop pod.fo/e/fddc5